Posted on 10/25/2025 4:09:50 PM PDT by Libloather
Eleanor Holmes Norton, a non-voting delegate representing the District of Columbia, has the “early stages of dementia,” according to a police report detailing how scammers took advantage of the oldest member of the House of Representatives.
Norton, 88, was duped by multiple suspects Thursday who went to her Washington, DC, home claiming to be HVAC workers, according to an internal police report obtained by NBC News4.
The swindlers charged $4,362 to the Democratic congresswoman’s credit card without performing any work.
Norton’s “caretaker/power of attorney was not at residence” at the time the group showed up, which was just after 3:30 p.m., the report states, noting that it was Norton’s “caretaker” who called DC police after noticing the unscheduled arrival at the congresswoman’s home.
Norton’s apparent cognitive impairment was described in the section of the police report detailing victim information.
“Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC) 88 years old, Black Woman, suffers early stages of dementia,” the report states.
Norton, who has served as a member of the House since 1991, has shown signs of mental decline and has struggled to do her job on Capitol Hill in recent years, friends and colleagues told the New York Times earlier this year.
The congresswoman is described as being “unable to function independently,” leaning on aides, close friends and family members for help, the outlet reported, noting that she rarely attends House Oversight Committee meetings and appears at times not to recognize people she has known for years.
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She’s not a real voting member of Congress, more like Snapper Carr or Wendy and Marvin to DC Superheroes.
Norton: “that ain’t nuttin’. Biden had old timers and wuz President!”
Time is the undisputed champion. There needs to be a mandatory retirement age for Congress.
If she has no clue where she is then someone else is so wouldn’t that be abusing an elder
If only Rush was still here, he would be able to resurrect Operation Chaos to get her through the primary. She has been worthless for decades. Let’s rub their noses in it by getting her reelected.
Sounds like the people who vote for her.
DC cops can’t enforce the law, but get to diagnose dementia?
Delegate Norton, meet Senator Byrd, Senator McConnell, Congressman Dingell, etc.
She was duped out of $4,000 at the same time she was duping the American taxpayers out of $174,000 a year !
Electing a politician is like electing a Christmas tree. It’s all the ornaments that come with it that bring the problems.
The Founders assumed that members of Congress would serve a term or two, then go back to their farms. Regular elections would provide turnover.
The Founders sure were wrong about that.
“caretaker”
They apparently meant “caregiver”, didn’t they?
“Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC) 88 years old, Black Woman, suffers early stages of dementia,”
That puts way ahead of the vast majority of other democrats.
After biden, I guess nobody is too compromised mentally to hold office.
“She has been worthless for decades.”
Just like DC voters.
But then quinine came along and that smart alec Willis Carrier invented air conditioning and that put an end to that.
Yep. They should have written it in that way with term limits. Of course, it would have been turned over by now, anyway.
Only death can pry a democrat out of a house seat.
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